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stettix / things-i-believe.md
Last active March 20, 2024 17:45
Things I believe

Things I believe

This is a collection of the things I believe about software development. I have worked for years building backend and data processing systems, so read the below within that context.

Agree? Disagree? Feel free to let me know at @JanStette. See also my blog at www.janvsmachine.net.

Fundamentals

Keep it simple, stupid. You ain't gonna need it.

@afjoseph
afjoseph / stupid-spotlight.sh
Created October 19, 2017 07:32
When spotlight indexing turns to shit...
#!/bin/sh
# Reference: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/62715/applications-dont-show-up-in-spotlight
sudo mdutil -a -i off
sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.metadata.mds.plist
sudo mdutil -a -i on /
@vsouza
vsouza / .bashrc
Last active April 9, 2024 05:27
Golang setup in Mac OSX with HomeBrew. Set `GOPATH` and `GOROOT` variables in zshell, fish or bash.
# Set variables in .bashrc file
# don't forget to change your path correctly!
export GOPATH=$HOME/golang
export GOROOT=/usr/local/opt/go/libexec
export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin
@cameronmaske
cameronmaske / celery-monitor.py
Created October 27, 2014 02:55
Monitor celery queue backlog and concurrency with Librarto.
from myproject.config import celery_app # Change this.
import requests
import librato
import time
import os
LIBRATO_USERNAME = ""
LIBRATO_API_TOKEN = ""
RABBIT_MQ_API_URL "http://localhost:15672/api/"
RABBIT_MQ_USERNAME = ""
@xmlking
xmlking / Enum.es6.js
Last active June 25, 2019 18:09
JavaScript Enums with ES6, Type Checking and Immutability
export class EnumSymbol {
sym = Symbol.for(name);
value: number;
description: string;
constructor(name: string, {value, description}) {
if(!Object.is(value, undefined)) this.value = value;
if(description) this.description = description;
@methane
methane / gist:2185380
Created March 24, 2012 17:28
Tornado Example: Delegating an blocking task to a worker thread pool from an asynchronous request handler
from time import sleep
from tornado.httpserver import HTTPServer
from tornado.ioloop import IOLoop
from tornado.web import Application, asynchronous, RequestHandler
from multiprocessing.pool import ThreadPool
_workers = ThreadPool(10)
def run_background(func, callback, args=(), kwds={}):
def _callback(result):